leafnode DoS

During new fetching program can wait forever...

leafnode 1.9.3 - 1.9.41 security announcement SA-2003-01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 leafnode-SA-2003:01.fetchnews-hang Topic: potential denial of service in leafnode Announcement: leafnode-SA-2003:01 Writer: Matthias Andree Version: 1.01 Announced: 2003-09-04 Category: main Type: potential denial of service Impact: fetchnews hangs, n...

CVE-2002-1661

The leafnode server in leafnode 1.9.20 to 1.9.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop when leafnode requests a cross-posted article to one group whose name is a prefix of another group...

Leafnode security announcement SA:2002:01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- leafnode-SA-2002:01.versions Topic: vulnerabilities in leafnode Announcement: leafnode-SA-2002:01 Writer: Matthias Andree Version: 1.00 Announced: 2002-12-29 Category: main Type: denial of service Impact: CPU busy loop Credits: Jan Knutar jknutar, nic dot fi, fo...

Leafnode CPU exhaustion

If message is crossposted to few groups where one is prefix for another and then requested by message id programs goes into infinite loop...

leafnode denial-of-service triggered by article request

The leafnode NNTP server may go into an unterminated loop with 100% CPU use when an article is requested by Message-ID that has been crossposted to several news groups when one of the group names is the prefix of another group name that the article was cross-posted to. Found by Jan Knutar...